Malachi 1:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted and its food may be despised.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But you [priests] profane it when [by your actions] you say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and the fruit of it, its food, is contemptible and may be despised.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.

Common English Bible

¹² But you make my name impure when you say, “The table of the LORD is polluted. Its fruit, its food, is despised.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And you have polluted it, in that you say, "The table of the Lord has been contaminated; and that which is placed upon it is contemptible, compared with the fire that devours it."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And you have profaned it in that you say: The table of the Lord is defiled: and that which is laid thereupon is contemptible with the fire that devoureth it.

Malachi 1:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:14

Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child born to you shall die.”

Ezekiel 41:22

an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits wide; its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that stands before the Lord.”

Ezekiel 44:16

It is they who shall enter my sanctuary; it is they who shall approach my table to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

Hosea 13:9

I will destroy you, O Israel; who can help you?

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Amos 2:7

they who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and push the afflicted out of the way; father and son go in to the same young woman, so that my holy name is profaned;

Malachi 1:13

“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.

Malachi 2:8

But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,

Romans 2:24

For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles because of you.”